Königsburg (Schlei)
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 Location of the Königsburg / Kongsborg on the south bank of the Schlei |
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| Alternative name (s): | Kongsborg | |
| Creation time : | around 1415 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | king | |
| Place: | Kosel -Bohnert | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 32 '5.5 " N , 9 ° 44' 27.5" E | |
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The Königsburg ( Danish : Kongsborg ) is an abandoned medieval tower hill castle (Motte) near the village of Bohnert in the municipality of Kosel in Schwansen .
history
The castle was built around 1415 by the Danish King Erik of Pomerania on a headland on the south bank of the Schlei . It was one of several weir systems to control the Schlei (such as the castle near Missunde and the Schwonsburg / Svaneborg or Oldenburg / Gammelborg near Schleimünde ). The royal castle was built at the time of the dispute between Danes and Holsteiners over the young Duchy of Schleswig . At the Danish Diet in Myborg in 1413, Schleswig was awarded to the Danish crown, which the Holstein count Heinrich IV did not accept. In 1417 there was therefore a battle at the royal castle. It cannot be ruled out that there was an older castle complex in the same place before 1415.
The castle was built at a strategic point on a headland just before the Missunder Enge and only connected to the mainland by salt marshes . It consisted of an inner and an outer castle. The inner castle was in the shape of a square with sides of about 50 meters. In the south of the inner castle there was probably a round tower standing on a hill . The outer castle was built in the shape of a pentagon with sides between 212 and 152 meters. It was surrounded by a rampart with ditches about 4 meters deep. After the castle was abandoned, the complex fell into disrepair, and stones were then used, among other things, to repair the church in Rieseby .
Remains of the ramparts can still be seen today. A villa was built in the area of the inner castle at the beginning of the 20th century. The site is not freely accessible today. A Schleswig folk tale is associated with the royal castle , according to which a peasant boy is said to have seen a golden cradle there.
literature
- Christian Kock: The royal castle near Bohnert , in: Riesebyer Jahrbuch, Vol. 25, 2000, pp. 89–91
- Arthur Dähn: Ring walls and tower mounds - Medieval castles in Schleswig-Holstein , Husum 2001